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Fashion and Jazz
Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion...
Luxury
Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession.
Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion places philosophical approaches at the heart of contemporary fashion studies. Considering the mutual relationships between aesthetics, modern society and culture, fashion and the fine arts, and the way these relationships have influenced and shaped our views on...
by Caleb Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played to very high audio levels. However, works of art are far from the only thing one...
Civic Aesthetics
Militarism, Israeli Art and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies.
Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and the way in which this omnipresence...
Early European Castles
Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.
Looking at above and below-ground...
Medialogies
Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in...
Encountering Things
Design and Theories of Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspective about the social and cultural lives of objects.
Focusing on the themes of process and product,...
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema
The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately,...
Sonic Thinking
A Media Philosophical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Sonic Thinking attempts to extend the burgeoning field of media philosophy, which so far is defined by a strong focus on cinema, to the field of sound. The contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Sound Studies by attempting to think not only about sound [by external criteria, such as...
Cities in Time
Temporary Urbanism and the Future of the City
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From street-markets and pop-up shops to art installations and Olympic parks, the temporary use of urban space is a growing international trend in architecture and urban design. Partly a response to economic and ecological crisis, it also claims to offer a critique of the status quo and an innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers,...
Fashion Curating
Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of 'curating' are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to 'curate', but where does this leave the traditional understanding...